Photos from local machine into Media Library

  • Howdy, I have a bunch of photos I want to use on my local machine for my website. I have tried uploading via the media tool however, it’s telling me: “Post-processing of the image failed likely because the server is busy or does not have enough resources. Uploading a smaller image may help. Suggested maximum size is 2500 pixels.”

    I’ve increased file size via wp-config.php and I’ve increase WP_MEMORY_LIMIT to 512M.

    The files are already on my machine hosting my website, can I just move the photos from it’s current directory to the media directory of my website? Can I create a relationship between the two folders?

    Linux Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS, Dell optiplex circa 2010 (so nothing super fancy)

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • Hello. ??

    I may have found a plugin and article that can help: the Add From Serve plugin and steps on using it from How to Bulk Upload Files to the WordPress Media Library Using FTP.

    Hope this helps!

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    ““Post-processing of the image failed likely because the server is busy or does not have enough resources.”

    It’s unlikely that Add From Server, though an excellent plugin that’s saved my behind more that once, can solve this because the issue isn’t the upload but the processing that takes place afterwards. Please ask your host to check their logs and see if there’s failures taking place related to image processing by gd or imagemagick.

    Thread Starter arbsahoy

    (@arbsahoy)

    @mysweetcate I’ve tried the mentioned without luck.

    @sterndata I host my own server at home. Other than googling the logs for gd or imagemagick, do you have any recommendations? I have 1 photo that is 3400×1200 in size for pixels but iirc I ran it through a post processing filter in GIMP to reduce file size while maintaining image ratio. My preference is to not do this to every single photo I wish to upload.

    Again the photos are already on the computer that hosts the website too, would linking the folders together via symlink work without running the WP Bulk add?? (ls -s)

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    run top while you’re uploading and the image is processing. I’m pretty sure that Add From Server will work via a symlink.

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